lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

BACK HOME AGAIN

[ # 1 country hit - # 5 pop hit ] (John Denver)
« © '74 Cherry Lane Music, ASCAP / Music Of 1091, ASCAP / WB Music, ASCAP »
There's a storm across the valley the clouds are rollin' in
The afternoon is heavy on your shoulders
There's a truck out on the forelane a mile or more away
The whinin' of his wheels just makes it colder

He's an hour away from ridin' on your prayers up in the skies
Ten days on the road are barely gone
There's a fire softly burnin' supper's on the stove
There's a light in your eyes makes him warm

Hey it's good to be back home again
Sometimes this ol' farm feels like a long lost friend
Yes and hey it's good to be back home again

There's all the news to tell him how'd you spent your time
What's the latest thing the neighbors say
And your mother called last Friday sunshine made her cry
And felt the baby moved just yesterday

Hey it's good to have you home again yes it is
Sometimes this old farm feels like a long lost friend
Yes and hey it's good to be back home again

Oh the time that I can lay this tired old body down
And feel your fingers feather soft upon me
The kisses that I live for the love that lights my way
The happiness that livin' with you brings me

It's the sweetest thing I know of just spending time with you
It's the little things that make a house a home
Like a fire softly burning and supper on the stove
The light in your eyes that makes me warm

Hey it's good to be back home again
Sometimes this old farm feels like a long lost friend
Yes and hey it's good to be back home again

Hey it's good to be back home again oh it is
Sometimes this old farm feels like a long lost friend
Yes and hey it's good to be back home again
I said hey it's good to be back home again
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2.

ON THE ROAD

(Carl Franzen)
« © '70 Cherry Lane Music, ASCAP / Music Of 1091, ASCAP »
Back in 1958 we drove an old V-8
And when it'd gone a hundred though we got out and pushed it a smile

We didn't know who we were
We didn't know what we did
We were just on the road

Headin' down from Canada on a gravel road a mile from Montana
Then my daddy read a sign and took us in the wrong direction

I asked my daddy where are we goin' he said we'll just follow our nose
So I look out the window and dreamed I was a cowboy

We didn't know who we were...

Met a girl in a truck cafe fell in love almost right away
Then the Mercury was ready to go I had to leave her

Shoo-be-doo-be-shoo-doo
Shoo-be-doo-be-shoo-doo shoo-doo

Go home said the Man in the Moon go home
Go home said the Man in the Moon go home
Because it's gettin' sorta late and I'll soon turn out my light
Go home said the Man in the Moon go home

We didn't know who we were...

We didn't know who we were
We didn't know what we did
We were just a ridin' on
We were just a ridin' on the road
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3.

GRANDMA'S FEATHER BED

(Jim Connor)
« © '73 Cherry River Music, BMI / Dimensional Songs Of The Knoll, BMI »
When I was a little bitty boy just up off of the floor
We used to go down to Grandma's house ev'ry month end or so
Have chicken pie and country ham and homemade butter on the bread
But the best darn thing about Grandma's house was her great big feather bed

It was nine feet high and six feet wide
And soft as a downy chick
It was made from the feathers of forty 'leven geese
Took a whole bolt of cloth for the tick
It'd hold eight kids'n four hound dogs and the piggy we stole from the shed
We didn't get much sleep but we had a lot of fun on Grandma's feather bed

After supper we'd sit around the fire and old folks'd spit and chew
Pa would talk about the farm and the war and Granny'd sing a ballad or two
I'd sit and listen and watch the fire till the cobwebs filled my head
Next thing I'd know I'd wake up in the mornin'
In the middle of the old feather bed

It was nine feet high and six feet wide...
[ banjo ] Well I love my Ma I love my Pa I love Granny and Grandpa too
I've been fishing with my uncle I rassled with my cousin I even kissed Aunt Lou ooh
But if I ever had to make a choice I guess it oughta be said
Well I'd trade them all plus the gal down the road
For Grandma's feather bed
I'd trade them all plus the gal down the road

It was nine feet high and six feet wide...

We didn't get much sleep but we had a lot of fun
On Grandma's feather bed
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4.

MATTHEW

(John Denver)
« © '74 Cherry Lane Music, ASCAP / Music Of 1091, ASCAP / WB Music, ASCAP »
Had an uncle name of Matthew
Was his father's only boy
Born just south of Colby Kansas
He was his mother's pride and joy

Yes and joy was just a thing that he was raised on
Love was just a way to live and die
Gold was just a windy Kansas wheatfield
And blue was just the Kansas summer sky

All the stories that he told me back when I was just a lad
All the mem'ries that he gave me all the good times that he had
Growin' up a Kansas farm boy life is mostly havin' fun
Ridin' on his daddy's shoulders behind a mule beneath the sun

Yes and joy was just a thing that he was raised on...

Well I guess there were some hard times and I'm told some years were lean
They had a storm in '47 a twister came and stripped 'em clean
He lost the farm and lost his family he lost the wheat and lost his home
But he found the family Bible a faith as solid as a stone

Yes and joy was just a thing that he was raised on...

And so he came to live at our house and he came to work the land
He came to ease my daddy's burden and he came to be my friend
And so I wrote this down for Matthew and it's for him this song is sung
Ridin' on his daddy's shoulders behind a mule beneath the sun

Yes and joy was just a thing that he was raised on...
Yes and joy was just a thing that he was raised on...
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5.

THANK GOD I'M COUNTRY BOY

[ # 1 country hit - # 1 pop hit ] (John M. Sommers)
« © '74 Cherry Lane Music, ASCAP / Music Of 1091, ASCAP »
Well life's on a farm is kinda laid back
Ain't much an ol' country boy like me can hack
It's early to rise early in the sack
Thank God I'm a country boy
Well a simple kind of life never did me no harm
Raisin' me a family and workin' on a farm
My days are all filled with an easy country charm
Thank God I'm a country boy

Well I got me a fine wife I got me ol' fiddle
When the sun's comin' up I got cakes on the griddle
And life ain't nothin' but a funny funny riddle
Thank God I'm a country boy

When the work's all done and the sun is settin' low
I pull out my fiddle and I rosin' up the bow
But the kids are asleep so I keep it kinda low
Thank God I'm a country boy
I'd play Sally Goodin all day if I could
But the Lord and my wife wouldn't take it very good
So I fiddle when I can and I work when I should
Thank God I'm a country boy

Well I got me a fine wife I got me ol' fiddle...
[ fiddle ] Well I wouldn't trade my life for diamonds or jewels
I never was one of them money hungry fools
I'd rather have my fiddle and my farmin' tools
Thank God I'm a country boy
Yeah city folks drivin' in a black limousine
A lotta sad people think that's mighty keen
Well folks let me tell you exactly what I mean
Thank God I'm a country boy

Well I got me a fine wife I got me ol' fiddle...
[ fiddle ] Well my fiddle was my daddy's till the day he died
And he took me by the hand and held me close to his side
He said live a good life play my fiddle with pride
Thank God you're a country boy
Well my daddy taught me young how to hunt and how to whittle
He taught me how to work and play a tune on the fiddle
He taught me how to love and how to give just a little
And thank God I'm a country boy

Well I got me a fine wife I got me ol' fiddle...
[ fiddle ] **********

6.

MUSIC IS YOU

(John Denver)
« © '74 Cherry Lane Music, ASCAP / Music Of 1091, ASCAP / WB Music, ASCAP »
Music makes pictures and often tells stories
All of it magic and all of it true
And all of thE pictures and all of the stories
And all of the magic the music is you

Music makes pictures and often tells stories...
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7.

ANNIE'S SONG

[ # 9 country hit - # 1 pop hit ] (John Denver)
« © '74 Cherry Lane Music, ASCAP / Music Of 1091, ASCAP / WB Music, ASCAP »
You fill up my senses like a night in a forest
Like the mountains in springtime like a walk in the rain
Like a storm in the desert like a sleepy blue ocean
You fill up my senses come to me again

Come let me love you let me give my life to you
Let me drown in your laughter let me die in your arms
Let me lay down beside you let me always be with you
Come let me love you come love me again
[ strings ] Let me give my love to you
Come let me love you come love me again

You fill up my senses like a night in a forest...
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8.

IT'S UP TO YOU

(Steve Weisberg)
« © '74 Cherry Lane Music, ASCAP / Music Of 1091, ASCAP »
You can do whatever you want to do wherever
You want to go it's up to you
And wouldn't it be fine following your heart
Playing your own part
You and me out on a farm let the sun be our alarm
Kickin' off our shoes doin' what we choose
And wouldn't it be fine knowing that you're mine
Anytime you want to be

I don't want to own you I just want to hold you
I just want to need you
I just like to see you smile and stay for awhile

If the times get rough bein' free might be enough
Keep our feelings warm see us through the storm
Wouldn't it be fine looking back and knowin' that we helped each other find
You can do whatever you want to do wherever you want to go
It's up to you
And wouldn't it be fine following your heart knowing from the start
It's up to you it's up to you it's up to you
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9.

COOL AND GREEN AND SHADY

(John Denver - Joe Henry)
« © '74 Cherry Lane Music, ASCAP / Music Of 1091, ASCAP / WB Music, ASCAP »
Saturday holidays easy afternoons
Lazy days summer days nothin' much to do
Rainy days are better days for hangin' out inside
Grainy days and city ways make me wanna hide
Someplace cool and green and shady

Find yourself a piece of grassy ground
Lay down close your eyes
Find yourself or maybe lose yourself
While your free spirit flies
[ clarinet ] Find yourself a piece of grassy ground...

August skies lullabies promises to keep
Dandelions and twisting vines clover at your feet
Memories of Aspen leaves trembling on the wind
Honeybees and fantasies where to start again

Someplace cool and green and shady
Cool and green and shady cool and green and shady
Cool and green and shady cool and green and shady...